The A.V. Club Names The Best Film Scenes of 2015

The A.V. Club Names The Best Film Scenes of 2015

While many publications limit their year-end lists to films and performances, The A.V. Club highlights its favorite scenes of the year, demonstrating how some of the best moments in film don’t always appear in the best films of the year. The way the list shakes out is that the contributors pick one “Scene of the Year,” and then highlight various other great scenes in an unranked list. In past years, the Scene of the Year has gone to the first processing scene in “The Master,” the hotel fight scene in “Before Midnight,” and the ending scene in “Whiplash.”

This year, The A.V. Club contributors picked the “Speak Low” scene in “Phoenix,” a film that has been widely acclaimed as having the best ending of the year. It’s a remarkable, cathartic scene that can be easily classified as the “Mic Drop” moment of the year. Other scenes include the bear attack in “The Revenant,” the “I Want It That Way” scene in “Magic Mike XXL,” and even the contract negotiation scene in “Fifty Shades of Grey.” The list itself is reprinted below, but please follow the link to see the contributors’ notes on each scene.